Charles Krauthammer: Price to Ortiz: Payback's a pitch

5:17 PM,
Jun. 13, 2014

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Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON - Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. And although retribution shall surely come in the fullness of time, a ballplayer can only wait so long.

Accordingly, when Boston slugger David Ortiz came to bat against Tampa Bay's David Price at the end of May - for the first time this season - Price fired the very first pitch, a 94 mile-an-hour fastball, square into Ortiz's back.